The Packers Were Awarded Four Extra Compensatory Draft Picks

It is possible to actually determine the formula by which the NFL awards compensatory draft picks, but it's as exciting as trying to figure out the salary cap. Because other teams signed Cullen Jenkins, Daryn Colledge, Brandon Jackson, Jason Spitz, and Korey Hall in free agency last summer, and the Green Bay Packers signed no one from another team, they were awarded the maximum amount of compensatory draft picks: four (two in the fourth round, and two in the seventh round). The picks come at the end of their respective rounds.

There's not a lot to get excited about here. The picks can't be traded, and while the Packers have sometimes gotten a good player with them, a lot of them have been misses. But it will provide them with a lot of extra quality depth in training camp, and if even one of them works out, it's a win.

2 comments:

is that, while we can't trade the comp picks, they free up our regular picks in the same round to be traded, while still leaving us with picks in that round.And, when we are drafting as low in each round as we are, and should be for the foreseeable future, the difference is minimal. :)

Agree Pat ~ Think our 4th round comp picks should be hits this year with all the talent in that range... I could see TT drafting two future starters with both comp picks... C/RB would be my choice... Since I figure he's going to go Defense heavy in the 1st, 2nd, & 3rd...

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